SAP Basis Lead

Company Description

Job Description We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced SAP Basis Lead to join our Technology team here s role is offered on a permanent basis from our office in Embassy Gardens, London.

This role will take responsibility for the oversight of our SAP technical environment, leading the team in configuring, monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting the SAP technical environment successfully.

About the team

The Technology team provides expertise and effective solutions to Penguin Random House. We integrate flexibility and agility which supports our consistent way of working. We set ourselves up for success by holding ourselves accountable and welcoming change. Each member of the Technology team brings skill and initiative to their role; we take personal ownership within a one team culture, working collaboratively to meet expectations from our stakeholders who trust us to deliver.

The role

Key responsibilities:

Lead and support the SAP Basis work streams, including oversight of the offshore team, ensuring activity is aligned with our Technology Strategy, agreed standards and best practice.

Install, configure and upgrade SAP HANA environments, including multi-tenant database containers, software revisions and patches using tools such as HDBLCM.Maintain and optimise our SAP landscape, including ECC, BTP, GRC, IAS (Cloud Identity Services), Cloud ALM and Signavio, ensuring strong system performance, availability and stability.

Monitor and troubleshoot SAP HANA and wider SAP environments, analysing alerts, logs, traces, memory and CPU usage using tools including SAP HANA Studio and HANA Cockpit.

Manage backup, recovery and disaster-recovery capabilities, including point-in-time recovery, system replication, failover mechanisms and integration with external backup tools such as Backint.

Apply your understanding of SAP HANA architecture and internals, including in-memory storage, memory management, persistence and CPU resource allocation, to support effective performance and problem resolution.

Work confidently within Linux environments, including file-system navigation, process management and basic shell scripting, alongside strong SQL and database fundamentals.

Manage SAP transports, client administration and technical changes in line with PRH change-management processes, whilst planning and supporting system, database and kernel upgrades.

Work closely with infrastructure colleagues to ensure backup, recovery and resilience approaches remain effective and aligned with best practice.

Maintain accurate technical documentation across SAP instances, lead the resolution of complex technical issues and provide clear status updates to management.

Mentor and guide the Basis team, whilst providing on-call and out-of-hours go-live or upgrade support where required.

What you’ll bring

Essential criteria

Significant experience of SAP Basis support and project delivery, including installations, upgrades and migrations.

People management experience, with the ability to lead, support and develop a technical team.

Relevant experience of SAP BTP and Cloud ALM.Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.

Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable criteria

Experience working with Okta in an SAP environment.

Experience of Automic or another job scheduling tool.

Professional SAP Basis certification.

Application instructions

Please apply with your CV by 23:59 on Thursday 1st October 2026. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the advert may close at any time. We would encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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